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Follow for a weekly list of forthcoming astronaut* birthdays.

Maybe you share a birthday?!

If not, perhaps it will be you who adds your name to the list?!

If you do share a birthday, what does it mean to you?

Do you feel a connection, pride? They take to the skies (on controlled explosions) to improve the world, to explore (to travel to strange new worlds).

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6 May 1949 David Leestma (NASA) US.

6 May 1952 Chiaki Mukai (JAXA) Japan.

6 May 1955 Donald A. Thomas (NASA) US.

6 May 1966 Aleksandr Skvortsov (RKA) Russia.

7 May 1959 Tamara E. Jernigan (NASA) US.

8 May 1952 Charles Camarda (NASA) US.

9 May 1931 Vance D. Brand (NASA) US.

10 May 1958 Ellen Ochoa (NASA) US.

10 May 1963 Lisa Nowak (NASA) US. For more of her story see an earlier item about William Oefelein – or Google ‘astronaut love triangle’, to see that even astronauts have their dark side.

12 May 1962 Gregory H. Johnson (NASA) England.

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Thanks to www.supercluster.com for the bios and links.

Also, thanks to www.pillownaut.com for the initial list of birthdays, and the many, many resources on the internet, especially Wikipedia and NASA.      

* = includes cosmonaut, taikonaut, parastronaut, spaceflight participant, space tourist, etc

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PS: I love coffee. BuyMeACoffee, leave a message with a date and time and we can share it, remotely, at the same time, and think about the Cosmos.

In the meantime, take care of yourself and if you can, someone else, too, because as Adam Smith said, “we naturally desire not only to be loved but to be lovely”.

Remember, hope lives here.

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